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DISOBEY
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disobey ... he / she / it disobeys
Past simple: disobeyed
Past participle: disobeyed
-ing form: disobeying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient
Example:
He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "disobey" is one way to...):
decline; refuse (show unwillingness towards)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disobey"):
sit in (participate in an act of civil disobedience)
counteract; countermine; sabotage; subvert; undermine; weaken (destroy property or hinder normal operations)
balk; baulk; jib; resist (refuse to comply)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
obey (be obedient to)
Derivation:
disobedience (the failure to obey)
disobedient (not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority)
disobedient (unwilling to submit to authority)
